Schneider Electric EcoStruxure for Mining, Minerals and Metals

Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure for Mining, Minerals and Metals is a system architecture and platform that leverages digital technologies and the IIoT. It allows companies to connect, collect, analyse and act on data in real time to improve safety, efficiency and sustainability.

EcoStruxure integrates innovation at three levels: connected products; edge control; and applications, analytics and services. 

Field devices with embedded intelligence, such as sensors, circuit breakers, meters, variable speed drives and process instrumentation, provide the link to real-time data that is essential to higher-level control and decision-making.

Real-time and run-time control systems are connected to field devices and collect data from them, analyse current conditions against goals and past performance, and make autonomous control decisions to improve process performance. At the heart of the edge control layer is the Modicon M580 Ethernet PAC (ePAC), the automation controller that uses open Ethernet standards to enable process efficiency, flexibility and cybersecurity.

At the highest level of the EcoStruxure architecture, sophisticated problem-solving and analysis is performed on an enterprise-wide basis to optimise business operations and maximise results. On this level, Schneider Electric provides a portfolio of software and associated services.